Fight the Power, Do No Harm is the story of the Black Cross Healthcare Collective - a group of healthcare workers who lived in Portland, Oregon. They formed after the WTO protests of 1999, after seeing a need for medical care that specifically served people who were attending direct actions, demonstrations and political protests. 

In the early 2000s they pioneered community-supported trials to find an antidote to pepper spray. These trials resulted in an antidote that has been used in street protests internationally. The collective disbanded as a medical group in 2005 or so, morphing into the Black Cross Social Club.

All music in this show is by the Infernal Noise Brigade.

www.blackcrosscollective.org

My Role

• Co-Producer, Interviewer, Editor, Writer, Narration

Collaborators

• Jodi Darby - Co-Producer, Interviewer, Editor, Writer, Narration

• Honna Veerkamp - Co-Producer, Interviewer, Editor, Writer, Narration